New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s conservative credentials as a budget-buster have been legend, but now there is a dark cloud over him that should end all discussions of his “future career” in national office. Christie’s ties to radical Islamists are so troubling, they should be investigated by a grand jury.
Here is my report on Christie’s recent actions to appoint a sharia-law Muslim attorney to a judgeship in New Jersey. That person’s background and connections are linked to Al Qaida and its sympathizer/fundraisers. This is a deal-breaker.
Steven Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism has more background on Christie’s Muslim cronies and concludes:
“Christie’s support for Islamists such as Qatanani and Mohammed betrays either naivete or calculation. Either is troubling.”
Here’s a small excerpt of Emerson’s report. Read it all here. Chris Christie has much answering to do. He cannot overcome this.
“New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s nomination of Sohail Mohammed to be a state judge shows the governor’s tin ear for radical Islam. Not only did he appoint a longtime mouthpiece for radical Islamists to be a judge, but Christie has also turned a blind eye to the activities of one of Mohammed’s clients – radical imam Mohammed Qatanani, head of one of New Jersey’s largest mosques.
Qatanani has a history of Hamas support and was related by marriage to a leading Hamas operative in the West Bank. This fall, Qatanani will return to a New Jersey immigration court, where the Department of Homeland Security is fighting to have him deported. In his initial application for a green card filed in 1999, government lawyers say Qatanani failed to disclose a conviction in an Israeli military court for being a Hamas member and providing support to the terrorist group.
Oddly, Christie – a Republican who was then the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey – sided with Qatanani against DHS, allowing a top lieutenant, Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles McKenna, to testify as a character witness at Qatanani’s first immigration trial, and publicly embracing the imam at a Ramadan breakfast at his mosque. Christie later appointed McKenna as New Jersey’s head of homeland security..
As general counsel to the American Muslim Union (AMU), Mohammed often represented clients subject to government allegations concerning terrorists. The AMU often is highly critical of U.S. counter-terrorism efforts.
One online newsletter even included a claim that a “Zionist commando orchestrated the 9/11 terrorist attacks” and shows support for a “Rabbi” from the extremist Jewish organization Neturei Karta, which denies the right of Israel to exist and supports its dismantling.”
